Laura Aubin
Frontend Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Aubin is a frontend-focused full-stack developer with nine years of experience building polished, accessible UIs at Shopify, where she has progressed from multiple internships to senior frontend roles on Inventory and Orders. She’s a core contributor to Shopify’s Polaris design system, improving components like Modal and TextField and adding accessibility features that ship across merchant-facing products. Comfortable across React, TypeScript, GraphQL and Rails-based teams, she pairs practical engineering with a strong eye for design-consistent implementation. Based in Ottawa, she combines production-grade frontend craftsmanship with a history of cross-team learning and rapid iteration in large-scale e-commerce systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Carleton University
English
Github Skills (22)
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system-design9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 32 reviews, 66 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily contributed to the Polaris design system, focusing on UI component enhancements and bug fixes. Their work involved modifying existing components like `Card`, `Modal`, and `TextField`, improving functionality, and ensuring adherence to the design system's standards. They also worked on test cases to validate the behavior of the components. This includes adding features such as adding an activator element to the Modal and ensuring TextField components have an aria-labelledby property.
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LauraAubin/Traveller
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 months
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